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September 27, 2011
City Caps Boerum Hill
South Brooklyn Post
by Nicole LaRosa
Local artist Therese Urban fought against the Atlantic Yards development. She’s grateful that the new zoning will keep the rising towers of Downtown Brooklyn out of Boerum Hill.
“Having a lovely neighborhood that has been cared for for 150 years is an important thing in America and it’s an important thing in Brooklyn,” said Urban, 67, a Boerum Hill Association member who raised four children in the leafy enclave.
“There’s a place for everything—in its place.” She welcomes new larger buildings on 3rd and 4th avenues but insists that preserving the charm of the residential streets brings a cohesiveness that was lacking in the area disrupted by the new Barclay Arena stadium.
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Similar resistance has emerged across the entire city, where Mayor Bloomberg has aggressively rezoned more than a fifth of its land. Last week, the city council voted unanimously to downzone a swath of Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Prompted by the sting of the Atlantic Yards development, the neighborhood turned to downzoning, becoming the eighth brownstone Brooklyn pocket to do so in recent years. It was a move, the neighborhood association leader told the Brooklyn Paper, “to keep Boerum Hill feeling like a small neighborhood.”
Posted by eric at September 27, 2011 12:34 PM